Linux, OS Concepts and Networking

What is the Difference between Process and Thread ?

Creating a new thread is very similar to forking a new process, but there are differences. When … Read more

mdns-scan is a tool for scanning for mDNS (Multicast DNS) OR DNS-SD ( DNS Service Discovery) published … Read more

Spinlocks Spinlocks assume the data you are protecting is accessed in both interrupt-handlers and normal kernel code. … Read more

Sometimes someone from within your network starts consuming lot of bandwidth and you just needed to identify … Read more

Besides the better readability, the code for mutex is smaller and slightly faster than the semaphore implementation. … Read more

Zombie process is the process which died immediately and whose parent didn’t cared to handled the status … Read more

EncFS creates a virtual encrypted filesystem which stores encrypted data in the rootdir directory andmakes the unencrypted … Read more

If you want to install node.js which is gaining popularity in recent days, you can follow below … Read more

To install specific version of Node JS, first make sure NPM package manager is installed. You can … Read more

Lets say you are trying to do something with UPNP which reserves port 1900 for all of … Read more